Do you own a media company? If yes, then you need media professional liability insurance. Just like any other form of business media companies also have their own fair share of risks and challenges, including being sued for invasion of privacy, libel, plagiarism, and much more. So, what exactly is media professional liability insurance and […]
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Take a break: it’s time well spentWe know how hard it is for many of you to find the time in your work day to take a break. That’s why Guild volunteers are organizing events at CBC locations across the country during the week of May 6 to encourage us all to take – and enjoy
In March of this year, we announced a new structure for three of our functional operating areas: Marketing, Manufacturing and Reader Sales & Service. We are taking the next steps and announcing a new structure for the rest of our functional areas. This represents the most significant changes we have made toward redesigning our company.
Office of the PublisherDate: April 30, 2013 To: All Staff From: John Cruickshank Last month, the Star announced a proposal to outsource most page production and print design work currently performed in the Star’s newsroom. The Guild collective agreement outlines the union’s opportunity to present an alternative to company plans to outsource work, and the
Newsroom plan presented I Guild team gives publisher, company way to save money and avoid contracting out of page desk Plan would avoid most layoffs and save company 50% more than contracting out Guild leaders and editorial team of deskers today presented our plan to dramatically evolve newsroom production, retooling the newsroom as a true
Earlier this week, Star columnist Rosie DiManno wrote a piece about an alleged sexual assault of a man by four women, and some people got upset. Several wrote to the Star’s public editor Kathy English, or at least enough of them to compel her to draw up a letter she sent to each of them to address
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When the Star announced layoffs a few weeks ago, one of the causalities appeared to be the radio room. Here’s an update. Journalists across Canada were stunned earlier this month to learn that the Star planned to kill its famed radio room program. The other layoff news — in advertising, the library, the editorial assistants, the page desk, the designers — was terrible
Reporters are pretty terrible at keeping records – I know it’s not just me. Go ahead and ask one to hand over the report they wrote a story about last June. I’ll wait here for a while as they frantically check sent folders and try to remember where on their hard drive they may have
Because I’m a loser, I read Indigo’s Q3 earnings and got all excited about their outstanding gift card balance that was somewhere around $63-million. Turns out if you add up all the different categories accountants use, it’s actually closer to $77-million on the balance sheet. And because I’m an even bigger loser, I imported some of the balance
As you know, the Star recently acknowledged to readers that parts of an article by one of our reporters contained unattributed material reported in the Globe and Mail. Later in the same week, we learned that Chris Spence had plagiarized portions of an op-ed piece in the Star. This note is to bring you up